Re: perl v5.42 segfault

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 11:39:05PM +0100, James Cook wrote:
> Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost> wrote:
> > You can get here from the main site via "Support" -> "Bug Reports".
> 
> Thank you. In hindsight, that seems like an obvious place to look,
> but I instead checked (a) the send-pr(1) man page, (b) the gnats
> query page, which is where https://gnats.netbsd.org/ redirects to,
> and (c) the page of my PR itself.
> 
> Would it make sense to point to that support page from send-pr(1) and
> the query page?
> 
> Or, more aggressively, I wonder that support page should
> be merged with the send-pr(1) man page, since they seem to have similar
> information and the man page looks relatively neglected. Maybe the
> support URL could redirect to the man page online after the merge, to
> avoid any future divergence.
> 
> If any of that is desired I might find time to draft patch(es). (Maybe I
> should bring this up on a different mailing list.)

I've forwarded your mail to the website team, let's see if they can
improve this :-)

If you want to take a stab, there's an htdocs repository which I think
is public.

> I made a new git clone of the repo (at ~/tmp/pkgsrc) and built from
> there to avoid that sort of problem. Could "make install" be looking
> outside the clone?

Only if you've set up your work directories to be outside, by using
one of the WRK* variables like WRKOBJDIR.

> Maybe I will try building lang/perl5 from scratch on a new VM with a
> freshly installed OS to rule out even more state. What OS / version were
> you running when you built a working perl without the RPATH problem?

I'm running NetBSD 11.99.4/x86_64; but I don't think the exact version
or architecture should matter in this case.

Perhaps check your /etc/mk.conf for non-standard settings that might
interfere here?

Cheers,
 Thomas